An Annotated Bibliography
of
Japanese War Crimes & Atrocities in China, 1931-1945

Complied & Annotated by Chiu-yee Cheung

(Last update: 22nd April 1999)

NOTE: Entries arranged according to chronological orders of the original publication date under different topics.

Chinese sources include information in GB. To distinguish between Japanese troops and Japanese people, all titles of mainland Chinese publications refer specifically to the Japanese troops which invaded China. I have tried to reflect this in the translations.

Furimoshi Marubashi. "Productive Use of Horror," in Cries for Peace, compiled by the Youth Division of Soka Gakkai, The Japan Times, Tokyo, 1978, pp. 134-36.

A former soldier of the Japanese Imperial Army admitted that "it was impossible for us to distinguish Chinese military and the ordinary civilian citizen, we were ordered to capture everyone we found." "The Japanese military undeniably did grave harm to the Chinese people. We cannot erase our responsibility by making mere apologies. No matter what the orders, in the final analysis, it was the individual who actually acted. Consequently, none of us has the right to deny all blame."

Ienaga Saburo. The Pacific War 1931-1945, Pantheon Books, New York,1978.

Also published as Japan's Last War: World War II and the Japanese, 1931-1945, by Australian National University Press, Canberra, 1979. Includes a note about the rise of Japanese histroy revisionism.

Includes a section on the Rape of Nanjing. The most interesting part of the book is its insights into the real implications of the hansei of Japanese right-wing nationalists: military power is not enough to conquer the world; the real power is yen.